The Assemblers
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
A coon hunter stumbles onto a trailer full of brightly lit computer terminals… and one electrocuted corpse. A cop stops a car with the drug-wired daughter of the president of DataForm — a transplanted Silicon Valley security firm.
There is something rotten in Dubois, Arkansas.
An estranged husband-and-wife detective team temporarily rejoin forces, following a bizarre trail to big bucks and murder… as schemes, scams, and a seemingly superhuman computer turn a sleepy southern town into a high-tech hotbed.
“You don’t have to know anything about computers to… appreciate the intricacies Speer Morgan has dreamed up.”
— Los Angeles Times Book Review
“…a fast-paced, high-tech thriller…”
— Publisher’s Weekly
“…a joy and an education for the discriminating lover of the well-plotted thriller… skillfully executed…”
— Kansas City Star
“…continually suspenseful.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
“…a fast and gripping tale…a breathtaking climax.”
— Columbia Daily Tribune
“…a plot of almost Ludlumesque complexity…”
— St. Louis Dispatch
“…the suspense builds steadily…”
— Washington Post
“…should appeal to the computer buffs who like their techno-jargon straight and their stories complex.”
— New York Daily News
“…a unique read in contemporary fiction… a page-turning thriller…”
— Dallas Morning News
“…can be read and enjoyed by computer jocks, thriller nuts, lovers of fine fiction and those who enjoy a peek into life in a small town. In short, everyone.”
— Kansas City Star
“A fascinating venture into the world of computer crime that results in real murderous crime.”
— Arkansas Gazette
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Morgan's fourth novel (Brother Enemy is a well-crafted, fast-paced, high-tech thriller, which cleverly keeps the reader guessing right up to the last chapter, and at the same time shows a deft hand with dialogue and characterization. At the center of the story is Wayne McNear, head of DataForm, a Dubois, Ark., company that helps large institutions nationwide "police'' their computer databanks for unauthorized interference. But something has gone wrong, and DF's customers' computers are crashing, losing them thousands of dollars a day. Nobody can find out what's happeningor why. Furthermore, people connected with the problems are dying in odd accidents. McNear's deputy security chief, Bobbi Reardon, a tough, former local cop, becomes convinced that her boss is a victim of sabotage. However, her estranged, womanizing cop husband, Lt. Ray Weir, is not so sure. Morgan, editor of the Missouri Review, has come up with a chillingly realistic story that 10 years ago might have been called science fiction, and is now all too plausible.
